Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-04-09

WORD Pictures ut Gotham Life BY
Cumnsings aud Hail.

Cumn,ines aud Hall.
| THEY ARE CARED roR-sieHrs m rur HOSPITALS
AND AT TIE koReur-7HR WORKING aYRIs ASr
| THEIR SUNNY OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF ruE MOD
| ERS YOUNG WOMAN.
Special correspOndencsot TIE Evrxrse stan
| NKw York. April q
One OF the first thoughts that assail a stranger
In q large city is "what would become OF me II I
| should fall sick or dead IN the street,-
| He would probably so unidentified awhile owing
20 the fact that he, like 81 per cent OF the tram
sent persons, has not taken the precautiou 20
| write his name and residence somewhere about
his person. An address In the crown of the hat
Is often OF little service because the hat is lost or
stolen when the man falls An address stitched
On the lining OF ones or vest is most service
able
In no city in America can one fall sick and sense
| less with as great a sense OF security in being
cared for as in New York The city is divided into
districts convenient TO the several hospitals and
more than 4 score OF imbuances each running in
its prescribed district are on the go all the while
The patient falling sick or injured on the street
VIII regain CONSCIOUSNESS 10 md himself In Belle
Nue, Harlem, Goth street. Presbyterian, or Gouye-
mir hospital his destination depending on the dis
tr1ct where he chances 10 be stricken down IN lt
! is found that he has money and is able 70 pay 81
TO so week for hospital care he may be taken 10
New York, st. LuSes, Roosevelt MI sinai, Ger
| man, So. Vincents or ST. Francis hospital II he
has no money the city charges Itself with his care
| BELLEVUE
is the great receiving hospital Tt is on the east
side OF Manhattan Island, al the foot OF 10Th street
IL is an irregular group OF buildings arranged
around grass-platted court, and built OF rough
stone with piazLas at each story, that give IL the
appearance OF southern villa The patient u
taken on a stretcher into a reception room here
! he is examined, and the attending physician de-
cides TO which department OF the hospital he must
| be sent II he has a broken limb or is otherwise
| MANNED he goes 10 the surgical department III
| sickness and not accident has overIaken him. he
goes 10 the medical department. A corps OF twelve
physicians and forty trained nurses are on hand.
The doctors are from one OF the three medical col.
the Intercollegiate stan. There are no homoso-
paese G msv BE- IN put tne patient 20 In
| hospital.
| TRAINED FEMALE NURSES.
A corps OF forty trained female nurses from the
| Bellevue training school are on duty In Bellevue
Hospital. They earn from SIS 10 $40 per
month and their board, which amounts. %
or the training school, Their course extends
| through two years during which they have the
benent or the Bellevue Hospital practice, which
they, as well as the physicians, value as superior
&c any other experience obtainable IN America
AZ the end o. two years they are sradaated and
at from S25 10 $50 week The supply
or trained nurses seldom equals the demand.
Great care is exercised In admitting ladies 10 the
school, A surprisingly large number OF we'll
educated ladies from The higher walks OF lie enter
the profession Bellevue AT present has one lady
nurse who is the daughter or a member OF the Ca
madam parliament and another who came from
one OF the arstocratic families OF the city. Very
frequently young lady who has been crossed In
love fnds relief In the activities OF the life OF
nurse In Bellevue and occasionally one enters
the service with no thought but her pro
| love with and eventually marr1es her. Thers
are some very pretty women among these
| nurses, and their white lace caps and blue
| and white dresses become them Immensely.
TRANSFERRED TO oTHKR HOSPITALS
When the patient has reached Bellevue IL may
be found that his case is chronic one and he Will
as soon as he is able TO be transported De sent 70
| the Hospital for Incurables. His case may be
found. TO be one OF smallpox, or some contagious
disease In which event he will be sent TO the hos
pital on North Brother Island, one or the several
| Islands in the East River on which are public In
situtlons. III his case develops into one OF erysipe
| las he will be removed TO the little wooden pa
vilion the bank OF East River that forms one OF
| the group OF structures called Bellevue Hospital
| Insanity may be the outcome OF the disease and
then the patient Is transferred for tine 20 the in
| sane pavilion OF Bellevue, where a nurse skilled In
| insanity Will quickly mud out whether or not the
| patient has dementta, melanchola, religious ex-
| citement, or the suicidal tendency. Colored peo-
| pie form majority OF those af1icted with relig-
| ious excitement, and they are always more vio-
| lent on sunday than on other days OF the week
The crazy patient VII requires long treatment Is
conveyed. II a male, TO Wards Island, and, n q
! female to Blackwellis Island IL Is curious Gus
tom OF New York hospital practice 10 rate the
males as 'insane patients" and the females -
In one ward or Bellevue. separated from the rest
of the room by great iron CRATES, are number
OF patients pacing the floor like Gagged lions They
| are the attempted suicides usually about six IN
| number, and two or more policemen are constantly
| on hand to guard them.
| THE MoRGUE.
The smell OF carbolic acid pervades the great
the morgue. The hospital is on East River and
the most easterly OF the community OF buildings
| is one-story structure built on spiles out over
the river. This is the morgue 1t is sided with
and provided with a block and tackle to
pull up '.noaters" from the river through
eSer sae of The SSdng are coarse board
co1ins. many OF them SO poorly made that they are
coming apart. The collins are made by city pris-
the Price Of the lumber There were last Mednes
| day fifty adult corpses, besides twenty-four little
cofiins at the north end the room containing the
bodies OF children The practice OF keeping spray
| OF water falling over corpse In the morgue Is no
longer followed, it having been round That the
wafer aids rather than arrests decomposition.
| In the hot summer months q red clay, procured
from Baltimore, and impregnated with carbolic
two DAYS Every morning the steamer fTdeiity
takes CHASTITY cargo OF from eight 10 twenty OF
these bodies up TO Harris Island, where they are
buried in trenches one above another, six In O
grave, In the potters 1eld. The cofiins are deig.
mated by numbers, and no headstone marks the
grave. The relatives OF the dead are not allowed
TO accompany the remains and no prayer Is said
| over the body. II IL be an 'unknownr the CLOTH
ing and tr1nketS are stored In the morgue ONCE
1 for six months, when they are destroyed. The
| better class OF raiment is cleansed and given TO
prisoners The most horrible performance about
the hospital falls to the lot OF the photographer OF
| the Bellevue, who takes pictures OF remarkatie
malformations and diseased organs for the benefit
| OF medicine or surgery. When an unidentified
corpse reaches the mogue he has TO prop IL up and
| take It's photograph This photograph is stored
I'm the morgue Office with great collection OF hor-
r1ble pictures OF the dead, and at the end OF the
twelve months IL IS destroyed II no one comes 70
| claim IL and the body. AMOS j. CUMMINGS.
GIRLS WHO EARN THEIR LIVING.
It is pleasure 70 walk up Broadway from Cham.
bers to Blocker street any bright afternoon from
30 to O'Clock. Nearly every one OF the big
buildings within those limits has factories on
every moor, where hundreds and thousands OF